SAHIWAL: A young girl was kidnapped and killed by her brother-in-law for sabotaging his second marriage against the will of her sister in Arifwala.

The victim was identified as 18-year-old Aqsa, a resident of Chak 17/SP, tehsil Arifwala.

According to details, Amtul got married to Muhammad Aslam, a resident of Khudiyain Khas of district Kasur.

A first information report (FIR), registered with Rang Shah Police, said Aslam had arranged his second marriage without informing Amtul. He was having a wedding at Chak 141/EB of tehsil Arifwala on April 21 and Amtul came to know about it.

She informed her sisters, Aqsa and Ruqaiya, about the second marriage of her husband. April 21 Aqsa and Ruqaiya went to the house where the wedding ceremony was going on.

They informed the girl’s family that Aslam was already married to their sister. Aslam got infuriated at it and he, in connivance with his accomplices, kidnapped Aqsa. They bundled her in a car and left the wedding venue.

Meanwhile, Ruqaiya called 15 but Rang Shah police did not respond. Later, they registered a kidnap case against Aslam, his two brothers and two unidentified men on the complaint of Ruqaiya. Police failed to trace Aqsa for two days. On Tuesday, her body was found from a canal near Hujra Shah Muqeem.

Police sources said Aqsa was strangled. Her body was sent to DHQ Hospital Pakpattan for an autopsy. Police converted the kidnap case into a murder.

CROSSFIRE: An ambulance driver was killed in crossfire between Harappa police and robbers near Dad Fityana on the National Highway.

Sources said the driver, Zahoor Ahmed, a resident of Village 85/EB, tehsil Arifwala, was returning home after leaving a patient in Chichawatni late at night. On the National Highway, he was caught in the crossfire between two robbers and Harappa police.

However, Harappa SHO Waqas Dhako claimed that Zahoor was not killed in the crossfire but by the firing of robbers. He said two robbers tried to intercept Zahoor’s ambulance near Dad Fityana but he did not stop. The robbers opened fire on the ambulance. The bullets hit Zahoor and he died on the spot.

Police registered a murder case against two unidentified robbers on the complaint of Zahoor’s brother Muhammad Hussain.

PPLA: A woman is running for the central president slot in the Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA) election scheduled for April 25 (tomorrow).

Three college teacher panels, led by Faiza Raana from Ittehad-i-Asatiza, Pakistan (IAP), Dr Tariq Kaleem from Tehreek-i-Asatiza (TA) and Nadeen Ashrafi from Nawa-i-Asatiza (NA), are in the race for the main slot.

This is the first time in the PPLA history that a woman, Faiza Raana, a professor at the Govt Graduate College, Lahore Cantt, is contesting for the president’s slot though among the total constituents, 63pc are women voters while the Lahore division alone has more than 70pc of women voters.

Afzal Abid, the general secretary, said a special seat had been allocated to south Punjab in the central executive.

Published in Dawn, April 24th, 2024